Asks GB to consider whether it is necessary for the Linnean Society to be so strict about the number of books members may borrow.
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Asks GB to consider whether it is necessary for the Linnean Society to be so strict about the number of books members may borrow.
Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.
Suggests a memorial from Huxley, Murchison, and other geologists on the Gallegos fossils. He will speak privately to Duke of Somerset.
Lengthy analysis of sources of misunderstanding of natural selection. Advocacy of Spencer’s term "survival of the fittest" instead of "Natural Selection". ARW urges CD to stress frequency of variations.
Is trying to arrange a new American edition of Origin.
Gives notes on Passiflora acerifolia [on cover].
Petition earnestly requesting that a ship surveying the Strait of Magellan collect fossil bones in the south of Patagonia.
All the blocks [for Variation] are now engraved except the rock-dove.
Sends a draft of memorial to Admiralty [to be signed by geologists and palaeontologists] requesting that an expedition to survey Strait of Magellan collect fossils discovered by Admiral B. J. Sulivan [see 5142].
CD considers "the survival of the fittest" as alternative term to "Natural Selection". Reflections upon misunderstanding and his own ambiguity.
Health improved; can now work "some hours daily".
Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on climbing plants"] is about to appear [in J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9]. Would CD approve of figures being reduced in size?
Sends onion and mint seeds.
Has taken memorial to G. H. Richards, the Hydrographer. He favours the proposal and will instruct Capt. Mayne. THH will communicate with Dr Cunningham, the naturalist for the expedition.
Asks CD if he can explain the results of an experiment that produced barley from oats that had been cut down to prevent their flowering.
WBT’s fowls’ skulls are being engraved; will see pigeon illustration proofs when he can.
Asks for CD’s opinion of the manner of migration of the eye of flatfish.
4th edition of Origin will soon be bound. Suggests sending copies to scientific periodicals that might notice it. Hopes JM will specify in advertisements that the work is corrected and enlarged. Hopes pages will be cut. Only insanity accounts for this not being done in England.
Thanks for information about the publication of CK’s lectures.
Discusses the migration of the eye in flatfish.
Barley growing from old oat stalks.
About duties in consequence of the death of Catherine Langton, née Darwin.
Thanks CD for photograph.
JvH will send his notes on origin of species;
he is now writing a paper on glacier period of the New Zealand west coast, and his account of the highly glaciated headwater region of the Rakaia River is being printed.